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In rec.games.chess.computer Tom Klem <thewiz@666nospam.com> wrote:

> "Robert Hyatt" <hyatt@crafty.cis.uab.edu> wrote in message

> [snip]

>>
>> > I have no idea where it will all end, only that it will.
>>
>> > Tom Klem
>>
>> It will definitely end.  But _not_ with chess being "solved".
>>
>> :)
>>

> We both can hope that this is true. I'm definitely a fan of not knowing the
> end of a matter, before it is time.

> I am curious, Dr Hyatt, what you think of the "spinning electrons"
> technology which is currently being explored with regard to CPU development.
> There is some speculation in the popular press that this technology will
> create the next huge leap forward. I was kind of hoping DNA computing would
> be it. :)

Really hard to say.  From a distant inspection, it seems (to me) that this
might be useful for some types of computation, but I don't see how it is 
going to apply to the chess problem specifically, so far.


> Also, how do you see quantum computing? Fact or fiction? Real or impossible?

Same as above.  Some fact.  Lots of fiction.  IE I would think we would have
effective optical computing first.  And that simply hasn't happened yet, and
is not on the horizon practically.


> There's 10^50 questions that I would like to ask you, but I'll humbly stand
> back and hope for an answer on these few :)

> Thank you for your wonderful contributions to computing and chess.

> Tom Klem




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